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kochetov_oleksii
Copper Contributor
Jan 28, 2022
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PowerShell UPDATE-HELP error

Dear Community, I am a complete beginner with MS PowerShell. While making my first steps with PowerShell, I tried to update Help System by means of running UPDATE-HELP cmdlet on my PowerShell 5.1 - ...
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  • Harm_Veenstra's avatar
    Harm_Veenstra
    Jan 28, 2022
    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/updating-help-for-the-psreadline-module-in-windows-powershell-5-1/

    "The root problem in Windows PowerShell 5.1 is that the module is automatically loaded at startup using the PSReadline name (with the lowercase l). Use the following steps workaround this problem and update the help.

    Close all powershell.exe processes. Then rename the PSReadline module folder name to PSReadLine.
    Open an powershell.exe session in Administrator privilege.
    Run Remove-Module PSReadLine to remove the auto-loaded PSReadLine module.
    Run Import-Module PSReadLine (use PSReadLine with capital L).
    Then run Update-Help -Module PSReadLine -Force
    These steps load the module in your session using the new name, which allows Update-Help to use the correct name to find the help content."
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Rajeshlanke
Copper Contributor
Feb 07, 2023

Hi Harm_Veenstra 

 

Thanks for your suggestions but unfortunately this steps didn't work for me and getting below error please help with other solutions or how about installing a new version of Powershell which doesn't have this issues I am using WIN Datacenter 2019 server 64bit. with PS version 5.1.17763.592

PFA.

 

 

 

Harm_Veenstra's avatar
Harm_Veenstra
MVP
Feb 07, 2023
You have many more modules with this issue in updating the help than just the PSReadline one... Does running "[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12" before updating help?
  • Rajeshlanke's avatar
    Rajeshlanke
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 08, 2023

    Harm_Veenstra  No luck ! even I executed below 2 command same issue .. but I would like to confirm this issue will not impact on my Powershell Administrative stuff like running scripts, commands everything will be accessible just If I go for help with that listed command/module  which is currently giving error that i won't able to get info. right?
    Also please suggest how about installing a whole new version of Powershell which doesn't have this issue can you help with correct version.

    • Rajeshlanke's avatar
      Rajeshlanke
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 20, 2023
      Hi All

      Anyone can help me on this
      • AndrejsSobolevs's avatar
        AndrejsSobolevs
        Brass Contributor
        Apr 15, 2024

        Rajeshlanke Hi,

         

        https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43323123/warning-unable-to-find-module-repositories.

        Look into section, where:

        notepad $profile

        and copy paste this bit changing your proxy details:

        [system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy = new-object system.net.webproxy('http://webproxy.yourCompany.com:PORT')
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy.credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials
[system.net.webrequest]::defaultwebproxy.BypassProxyOnLocal = $true

         

        Setup your proxy connection. Then it should work. For me it helped a lot. 😉

         

        Andrej

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